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“Unkindness to anything means an injustice done to that thing.”
Source: “Being Kind to the Soil”, The Negro Farmer, 31 January 1914
Context In a 1914 article for The Negro Farmer, he urged Southern farmers to care for and rebuild depleted soil.
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